Emotions are a mechanical system with very definite reaction times and types, specific to the particular owner of each system. An emotional handicap occurs when a person is so damaged in the internal emotional system that part or even most of that system shuts down and begins operation in emergency mode. Feelings are lessened, smaller, more near the surface and careless. Happiness is determined on the basis of physical comfort or discomfort and there is no inner joy. The mechanical unit, hazardously running on partial power, lacks all modes useful for function beyond survival.
Emotional nerve damage: ability to feel the presence of something without the ability to detect the nature of the presence through the senses.
I feel nothing but the slight echo of feelings--what once were feelings, their ghosts--pattering voicelessly through a long, narrow chasm.
The ghosts are foreign, like ghosts that didn't know me while they were alive, or like ghosts that never were alive. I feel nothing but the understanding that they are there, subterranean.
Don't tell me I'll get better, because I don't believe I will. I told you you would change me forever, that I'd never be the same.
I'm not interested in anyone's diagnosis or prognosis because each person bases theirs on their own experiences. This is my experience, and only I can know whether I will recover from this, and I already told you that I would not...
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So how long have you been able to tell the future?
ReplyDeleteYou think you'll know how you'll always feel about this but think about this, i bet you thought you would always know how you would feel before it ended (and i bet that it is different from how you think you'll always feel now).... were you correct then? How can you be so sure you're correct now?
This seems like a statement only God can make.
You're hurt yes, people talk about getting over it like it's a choice and i know how annoying that is because it is not a choice, but you can influence things if you decide to...
Well, this criticism was directed toward some people who can't seem to keep themselves inside their own business and want to spend all their time in mine. Basically, my point is that no one can tell another person how they feel...we can only know for ourselves.
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